FREE A1C testing in mid-November at select Walgreens

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Permalink Reply by Terry O'Rourke on October 22, 2009 at 11:48am

Thanks for the tip! I called my local Walgreens and confirmed that they are having a diabetes wellness event on November 11. They verified that I can get a free A1c test and receive the result immediately. It's on my calendar now. Good find.

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Permalink Reply by Lucile K. on October 22, 2009 at 5:54pm

Terry, So, the result from both the free blood glucose test and the A1C test will be available immediately? Lucy

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Permalink Reply by Terry O'Rourke on October 23, 2009 at 1:11am

Lucy -- Yes, they told me both the BG test and A1c test would be available right away. I presume that the A1c takes a minute or so. One of my former endos used to do the A1c in the office and could give a result immediately.

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Permalink Reply by Lucile K. on October 24, 2009 at 5:58am

Hi Terry, First, I'm anticipating an improvement in my A1c and looking forward to getting a peek at how I'm doing from Novo Nordisk/Walgreens in mid-November. Thanks, for passing on the additional info that both test results--BG test & A1c--would be available right away.

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Permalink Reply by Terry O'Rourke on October 25, 2009 at 8:52am

Lucy, I have been on a continuous glucose monitor since September 4. I had an A1c result after 30 days on the CGM and my A1c dropped 0.2%. I was hoping for a better result but its definitely moving in the right direction. So I'm using this free A1c to get a 60 day look at my status. If my CGM numbers translate to the A1c then I should be heading toward a 6.4% number.

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Permalink Reply by Gerri on October 22, 2009 at 12:08pm

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Larry Dantzler on October 24, 2009 at 4:02am

Thanks for the info.

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Permalink Reply by Christina on November 8, 2009 at 7:50pm

Sweet.. thanks for the information =]

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Permalink Reply by kAiTs_mOm on November 9, 2009 at 9:08am

Cool!! Thanks for the info. I checked on-line and the event closest to me takes place on Fri. November 13th.

I'm so excited. I just ordered an A1cNow kit last night. Unfortunately, I think they're only available on-line at this point. Has anyone seen them in a store? @ ~$30.00 for 2 tests I think it's a wonderful product. But, I'm curious as to how accurate they are.

Kait just had labs run on Fri Nov 7th and I wanted to take her A1c with this Beyer A1cNow kit as well - to check the accuracey of the product - but I couldn't find it in a store. Has anyone had the opportunity to check its accuracy?

anyway, thanks for the info...

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on November 12, 2009 at 9:35am

I've been happily looking forward to this; test in my area is on November 19th! Yes, Kait's mom, you can buy the home tests in stores, I saw them at Walgreen's I think it was $20 something, not sure if it's one or two tests.

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Permalink Reply by Lucile K. on November 13, 2009 at 7:31am

Regarding accuracey of the product, as I posted below: "Testing in my area is on Tues., Nov. 17th., and I intend to go for the A1C test. On Nov. 7th. I was one of five attendees at a diabetes talk sponsored by my endo's office to win an A1C test as a door prize. The result of my test was immediately shared with me--so I'm looking forward to comparing that most recent A1C result with the upcoming result from Walgreens. Notably, the results will be less than two weeks apart."

However, I don't know the brand name of the A1C test kit that my endo's office used as part of their door prizes or the one Walgreens is using in their promotion.

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Permalink Reply by Tanny Ahmad on November 10, 2009 at 7:48am

I went yesterday. 9.2! What the heck, that is the highest it has ever been. I just went on the pump so I knew that it would be higher (still tweaking). The time before that 7.9 (pre-pump) and 7.4. I definitely know that the stress of a divorce is also spiking my sugars.

The Walgreens A1c only took five minutes and I was in and out in about 10 minutes.

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